“Each Tentative List includes an email address to which comments on the proposals may be submitted. PSD accepts comments from LC and SACO catalogers, other library and archive professionals, lawmakers, and members of the general public. The comment period lasts approximately one month, beginning with the publication of the Tentative List and continuing until the closing date indicated on the list.”

The following are newly approved headings which I proposed [or canceled LCSH in favor of NARs]

Privilege (Social psychology)

BR563.W45 [class number for Christianity — History — By region or country –America — North America — United States — By race or ethnic group, A-Z — Whites]

Hawkman (Fictitious character) [Canceled in favor of NAR]

Onto the headings!

Animals in education

This cat could teach us a thing or two

Anthropomorphism in architecture

Comoorcial real estate

Baltimore Riots, Baltimore, MD., 2015

Justice for Freddie — also not the heading I would’ve proposed.

Birds of prey in literature

Too cool to look at that explosion

Christians, White

Seems like a representative cross section of America

Destruction art

okay I searched for “exploding art” and didn’t find any, but I did find this: http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/Culture/1.2718693

A proposal for White privilege appeared on Tentative List 10 (2016) and was not approved because LCSH does not include specific headings for groups discriminated for or against, and because other headings have been assigned to works on the concept. The proposal for Male privilege is analogous. Numerous other headings cover the concept of male privilege, including Sexism, Androcentrism, and Male domination (Social structure). The proposal for Male privilege was not approved.

So as the person who proposed Male privilege, I feel responsible for it — here’s my problem with their response.

LCSH absolutely does include “specific headings for groups discriminated for or against”

Some examples:

Discrimination against caregivers.
Discrimination against intersex people
Discrimination against overweight persons
Discrimination against the homeless
Discrimination against the mentally ill
Discrimination against people with disabilities

this is just a small set, there are lots.

So that reason doesn’t hold water for me.

The other half, that there are already sufficient headings to cover the subject doesn’t wash either.

I don’t want to analyze each term they offer, but none quite capture the concept of male privilege. Some may be decent RTs, but not the same concept. At the very least LCSH needs to acknowledge that it’s an increasingly used term, and consider adding it as a UF. We do not serve our users by denying them an entrance into the catalog.

New LCSH is not going to fix this

The following subdivisions will be added to lists of free-floating subdivisions:

H 1147, Animals
$x Phenology (May Subd Geog)

H 1156, Literatures
$x Garifuna authors

H 1195, Land Vehicles
$x Motors $x Exhaust manifolds

Also, I’m sure you know that ‘White privilege’ was rejected again by the PSD. April Hathcock has written about this, and you should go read what she wrote. I want to add that this is the second time that they’ve rejected the term, and this time it strongly seems like they’re not amenable to reevaluating it.

“LCSH does not include specific headings for groups discriminated against. Numerous works about white privilege have been assigned the headings Race discrimination and Whites—Race identity, and the meeting wishes to continue that practice. ”

Leaving aside the fundamental misunderstanding of what white privilege is that this statement belies, it sounds like barring a major shift in their practices, they won’t revisit this decision.